I want all of it — non-alcoholic vodka, whiskey, tequila — then I’ll stock up a nice bar with the real stuff, too, & start a weekly poker game; encouraging all to dare to keep up with my drinking! (mine being non-alcoholic, theirs being regular &/or extra-strong)

I drink LA Beer(“Less Alcohol”) when I want to enjoy a beer without buzzing. . . I like the taste of beer; LA Beer is my soda pop of choice. . . (not less calories, but less sugary tasting); in a pub, I’ll order lite draught beer because it’s cleaner (compare a glass of lite with regular — the regular has little ‘floaties’ swimming around in it)

Yes your drinking might impact me or someone who is close to me. According to another blog in the 1st half of 2011 there have been 242 traffic accident deaths, this is while Kuwait is a dry country, so multiply that by alcohol and how much do u get? Alcohol impacts a society and not just the individuals drinking it, i already have to suffer through second hand smoke when in Kuwait i do not want to suffer through drunk drivers too.

I’m not religious to me its not a religious issue but a logical one, what does society benefit from introducing alcohol?

And for any1 who points to the small health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption, i tell u this, no respectable doctor will ever tell his patients to drink let alone drink moderately. The minute health benefits u get from drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can easily be replaced and enhanced by exercise and a good diet.

Society benefits through the psychosocial impacts of alcohol (the feel good factor). There are of course negative factors too, but alcohol prohibition is not the solution. Alcohol prohibition simply allows organized crime to benefit instead of society. Are you happy that criminal gangs are financing themselves through alcohol smuggling, manufacturing, and distribution? Wouldn’t you rather see criminal gang finances decimated by the removal of their market? Additionally, millions of dinars flow out of Kuwait during weekends and holidays in search of alcohol. Wouldn’t you rather see those millions of dinars stay in Kuwait to finance health and education? You mention drunk driving. Is Dubai overrun with drunk drivers? Beirut? Bahrain? And you are very wrong when you say that no respectable doctor will tell his patient to drink. Kidney patients are often told to drink a small beer a day. Heart patients are routinely told to have a glass of wine a day.

Careful legislation, tight regulation, honest education, and reasonable taxation are the best ways of minimizing the negative effects while allowing all the positive psychosocial benefits of alcohol. Prohibition does not work. Prohibition is like using an RPG to kill a mosquito in the kitchen. You might kill the mosquito, but your kitchen is not going to look very healthy afterwards.

Not everyone drinks to get drunk! This is only something believed by college students and people who are deprived of alcohol. Maybe with Vodka, but I am more of a wine drinker. Many of my friends and I go to wine tastings, and enjoy the taste of different wines. I never cared for vodka, gin or whisky, but I would believe those to be alcohols for drunkards. I do know a few people who love different types of whisky though. For me coffee is coffee; I drink it to stay awake. I dont care if it is generic or Starbucks. That is probably how some of you feel about alcohol; Just something to get drunk with.

Btw this is not halal , as u read on their website ,, they say (which means) 10 years of research to bring the alcohol level to a minimum , minimum does not mean non , and in a hadeeth from Prophet mohammed (9llah allah 3lyah wasalam ) he said , katheerah moskir 8aleeelah haram ,, which mean if a lot of it will make u drunk , just a little it haram ,, this thing has a little , a minimum but that doesn’t mean non so also if it had 0.001% alcohol if I drink a million of it , it will make me drunk

People do take it for medicinal purposes as well and it doesn’t contain alcohol, it contains something called THS which doesn’t get you drunk but high, so can I get high if it’s gonna make me feel better or if I’m sick?

Human blood naturally contains approximately 0.01 to 0.03 mg of alcohol/100 ml. Diet 7 Up has .075%, Diet Sprite .051%, Dominos Raw pizza dough .42%, etc……. Natural yogurts and laban can contain as much as 2.5% alcohol (less than 1% on average). I think your .001% is taking things a little bit too far. But, judging by their size, I suspect a lot of Kuwaiti kids are trying to get drunk on pizza!

Guys non alcoholic booze is usually for cooking purposes. A lot of recipes use wine, sake, scotch, beer etc. to cook or fry meats. When cooking, the alcohol evaporates very very quickly anyway (much lower evaporation point than water) so you don’t actually need the alcohol in there for a lot of the recipes, just a hint of the taste it provides. A common example is the french using Wine to cook their chicken to give it a bit of a sweet/bitter taste and keep it moist.

A lot of the time in the US if you’re below 21 and cooking you need to buy alcohol free ingredients – Vanilla essence for example is usually alcoholic, Kuwait imports the alcohol free version. Some places will not sell you vanilla essence if you are 20 years old because you want to make cookies, so you buy the alcohol free version.

Hell most of the people here who go to London and enjoy their fish and chips probably don’t know the batter they use has a lot of beer in it. Even if you tell them they’ll pretend it’s not true so they don’t have to stop eating it lol

I never wanna see alchohol legalized here. It will bring a lot of crimes with it. I lived in russia for 18 years and trust me, you will regret it later if its legalized here. If you are desperate to drink, bahrain is the closest country. gl

In general, I wish they would legalize alcohol here for several reasons (including personal). Kuwait is never going to achieve its tourism goals for one if it doesn’t open up.

In reference to traffic fatalities, I think if alcohol were legalized (like UAE and Bahrain), there would be control measures to enforce drunk driving laws – and we probably wouldn’t see as many crashes on the way back from the chalets on the weekends. UAE is pretty strict on drunk driving, for example and people there are taking taxis like they would in the US or Europe.

I actually don’t like how the UAE and Bahrain somehow makes an exception to foreigners. Allowing foreigners to drink while discouraging citizens to do so will only create a sense of dis-entitlement to Kuwaitis. IE “How come they can drink, but we’re discouraged from doing so?” On the other side of the coin i don’t like how Saudi blocks expats in walled up camps isolating them from the population. Kuwait the way it is imho is fine, i just hop MOI would do its job more often and indiscriminately.

Fact remains that the majority of the Kuwaiti populace is against Alcohol legalization, therefore it wont happen.

I agree with you on every point but honestly Kuwaiti people are different to Emeratis and Bahrainis. They like to do everything in excess and introducing alcohol would be a disaster (even though, trust me I WISH WE COULD HAVE IT!!) I often go to Lebanon and stay at a particular hotel that is occupied by other Arabs. The staff have often said that a Kuwaiti that drinks, will never leave a bottle of booze for the next day. He will drink & drink until the bottle is empty. A number of hotel staff have shared stories of how they carry the same customer to their room almost every night. They also said even though Kuwaitis are probably the worse in these circumstances, not far behind are the Saudis! This is a delicate situation and the bored young youth can’t handle the booze. Saying to keep it just for foreigners is unrealistic as wasta will always come into play!

It’s NOT sick, it’s normal! These “foreigners” like me call Kuwait home. We have a right to our opinion as well. Every time a “foreigner” says something you don’t like you automatically tell them to leave. That’s not how it works. We are part of society, we live here, we work here, we love it here so why can’t we complain or want things?

I’m not arguing for or against alcohol here but I think you’re being too dramatic. You sound like you’re talking about heroine or crack and not alcohol. So ALL the countries in the world other than Kuwait, Saudi and Sudan are are dying and falling apart because of alcohol?

Regarding your last point.. expressing an opinion is expressing an opinion. You can’t say only express an opinion if it matches mine.

Actually yes, all countries that have alcohol are being affected negativly. I did such a study during my collage years.

Do you have any idea how much government spending goes up because of the examples i gave you before? Insurance prices goes up. More people in prisons, which also adds costs. How many kids die from being hit by drunk drivers. There are tons of statistics.

If I say so and so people should all die. You be ok with such an opinion?? And yes, saying alcohol should be allowed is just as bad for the reasons I mentioned before.

So what you’re saying is that from all the countries in the world, the only ones that are actually performing good and are actually the best places to live in are the countries that don’t have alcohol which are:

Offcourse u are entitled to your opinions but within limits of respect to the host country’s religion and culture.

There are many non Christians who are living in the US and other majority christian nations, should they impose their will and say “well we don’t believe in Christmas so that’s it our host country should respect our minority opinion and do away with Christmas”. They don’t have that right nor imo should they.

Alcohol isn’t the worst drug around, but its not exactly anointed holy water. There are more negative impacts from alcohol than positive therefore the majority Kuwaiti population don’t want it and every1 else should respect their opinions.

Are you saying that alcohol is a western invention?? Sudan wine making evidence around 1700BC. Babylonian (Iraqi) evidence beer making around 3000BC. Egyptian wine making evidence around 3500 BC. Iran wine making evidence around 5500 BC. Hardly some kind of evil western plot to corrupt us. The Middle East invented the bloody stuff!!

@aaa ignore him! Unless you totally agree with him, he becomes insultive! He can insult you but God forbid you disagree with him! He doesn’t understand that blogs ate about expressing an opinion. He takes everything too seriously and he isn’t even living in Kuwait!

after reading the comments above regarding why alcohol should’nt be legalized in Kuwait, I think it is hereby safe to conclude that most people, if not everyone, suffer from the “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde complex”. And that probably includes me as well.

Ok these countries have different histories and are not that successful for geo-political and historical reasons, if you’re comparing them to western nations off-course.

But the counter argument here is did countries like the US, UK, France and Germany succeed cause of alcohol?! I must’ve missed a lecture during my Western Civ classes but no one ever cited alcohol as a reason or even measure of success.

Society is negatively impacted by alcohol, even an alcoholic can tell you how much alcohol has screwed his life and the lives of the ones around him.

I did’t write this in any post that i have contributed to this thread or otherwise.

I did write that it doesn’t benefit society nor is it a measure of society’s success. Its as bad the people it affects, the son of an alcoholic and the casual drinker will have varying degrees of opinions to how bad it is.

In your next post please refrain from putting words in my mouth and debate the points that i raise not the ones i don’t raise.

Yeah exactly they don’t get it Qster, Mark a gentleman like yourself drinks a corona with a slice or lemon or lime depends on your dramatic taste, or a nice blue label on the rocks whatever it is, most people here thinks the more the better with everything, so since everyone knows everyone is getting it, why do you want it to make it legal? clubs? that shit won’t happen.

So really there is no one good reason why Kuwait should legalize drinking, I think we have enough problems with 3geedi’s i’ve already had a few problems back home with drunk 3geedies who drink jackson, if it got legalize people won’t pay price of a blue label for shitty liquor like red label, fuck red label and fuck whoever bring it in here man.

and Yes man these mother fuckers drink red label, so if they got any finer liquor, bye bye Kuwait, gulf road full of drunk drivers.

I am educated. I don’t know that. Your argument in the form of an ad hominem attack(“an educated person should know that”) is a logical fallacy often employed by the witless (I can play that game as well.).

Actually it’s PEOPLE who are the causes of drunk driving, wife beating etc NOT alcohol. These type of people will blame anyone rather than accept responsibilty. I have been drunk and have never Drunk driven a car, bashed anyone or raped! Alcohol is an excuse.

Look naturally you don’t drive as well drunk as you do sober. And you should never drive drunk etc. But a headache, stomache can also cause you to drive irresponsibly. But that’s not my point. What I was saying is that if a person has it in them to rape, beat a person or intend certain harm, then that person has it in them! Alcohol doesn’t make you do stuff. It takes your inhibitions away. Meaning it’s something inside you! I don’t have it in me to want to hurt anyone and when I’m drunk I tend to LOVE everyone and everything. If you (I don’t mean you personally) are they type who can’t handle yourself, then you shouldn’t drink. That’s why you should never drink depressed. It brings out the dark side (if you have one)

I grew up with alcohol around me and my family owned a distillery. I never saw my dad or mom drunk. My family have always had a drink everynight with dinner. My great grandmother died 15 years ago at the tender age of 103! My uncle ate well, never smoked, exercised and at 54 had a heart attack. He had his first red wine at 56 and is drinking every night. He is 92 in a week!

To those thinking that alcohol is bad for the body, this is not true by itself. Alcohol is a naturally present product in the body even if you have never had any in your entire life. Also, the body will naturally produce alcohol when certain foods are consumed so that the body will break down and properly use some of the nutrients.

Alcohol in small quantities is good for the body in some situtations as several respected studies (particularly Red Wine, though White Wine has also proved beneficial to lesser extent).

The problem is that a large number of people do not consume just a small amount of alcohol and Anything that is taken in excess can have negative impact on the body.

I curiously read over comments. Alcohol does have debilitating effects on humans, and is commonly used and abused. It can be a pleasurable social thing to do, if used in moderation, not excess as it dulls the brain and confuses the senses. All sorts of terrible things can happen, when someone slips ‘a little something extra ‘ into a casual beverage. I totally admire places where alcohol is banned. Monkey see, monkey do.